General Headphone Advice

Discussion in 'Headphones' started by Walderstorn, Mar 20, 2016.

  1. Yeskey

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    @Invalid : I enjoyed my short time demo'ing the Meze 99's if not for the slight mid-treble shoutiness (fun bass though). But that could have been my phone source. In the end I chose IEM's for portable/semi-home rather than portable cans because of better compactness/isolation. But that's just me (CFA Orion)
     
  2. Thenewerguy009

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    I always thought you should plug the headphone in after the amp is turned/warmed up & the volume knob should always be at zero?
     
  3. Armaegis

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    Also true. At turn-on you might current surges, post turn-on you might get shorts.

    The best solution is to get rid of TRS connectors and use XLR, and only plug in after turn-on with the volume turned down.
     
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    Another solution if you're using a single ended amp is to get your headphones balanced and use a TRS to XLR cable to connect your headphones. Keeping the TRS to XLR adapter connected to the amp allows you to disconnect your headphones when not listening and avoid the possible short of the TRS insertion. You can then turn the amp on and plug your headphones in.
     
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    How does Cavalli Liquid Carbon compare to Jot?
     
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    LC has a warmer tone and sounds somewhat like a tube amp. Jot is clean and quick. Slightly titled at both ends. Jot is a very good SS amp and does many things right. Jot is underpriced and Schiit could have easily charged a fair bit more for it.

    Sometimes hobbyist equate value with price, therefore if it's more expensive then it must sound better. Jot breaks this rule.
     
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    I have the Jot/DAC unit (i know TOTL sound , but Jot is great, i agree), people are asking for an alternative to Jot with larger soundstage. Does the Carbon have larger stage?

    I am super interested in this Cavalli amp. More impressions please.
     
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    Carbon has a smaller but deeper soundstage compared to Jot. If you're DAC is the built in one you'll get a far bigger improvement upgrading your DAC vs getting the Carbon.
     
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    I know, i am good on gear atm, have some great loaner units for a few weeks. Just wanted to know. My obvious next investment is an R2R DAC, not sure which yet. Yggdrasil definitely wrecks most thing i have heard so...

    If Yggdrasil had tube output stage, it would slay
     
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    I have a weird urge to buy a grado... are there any good ones?
     
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    If you can get your hands on an HF-2, those weren't as grating as the others. Or if you want to burn money, there's the super rare HP1000...
     
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    What cans should I be looking at for the best sub-bass, quantity over quality (but still with some quality)? Something like a HE500, but with more slam?

    Something ZMF? Fostex?
     
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    I haven't heard the ZMF headphones but yeah, TH-X00 or one of the variants would be a good step up in bass slam. They won't be as smooth sounding though.
     
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    Pre-Fazor LCD-2 should get you pretty far, without too much mid-bass masking the subs.

    My Denon D2000 has more of a sub-bass boost than my Purplehearts. They're lots of fun.
     
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    Sadly, I have had a pair of LCD2's and D5000's. Former didn't have quite enough quantity (which wasn't the reason I got rid of them mind you) and latter was way too flabby in the lows.

    Might be I'm crap at verbalizing what I'm looking for exactly. Might have a go at the TH-X00 though, looks like it's on Massdrop again.
     
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    Moving the foam disk on the th-x00 variants can bring somewhat of a change. I dampened the cups of my purplehearts and set the foam disk for Max bass slam. Now it reaches deep subbass levels even at lower volumes.
    I had to drive my he-400i to quite loud levels with HEAVY eq to get to those levels. And the cherry Omni never quite reached there with or without eq .
    Edit: added more thoughts
     
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    He500 is decent in that regard, like most of their older models. ZMF Blackwood has a pretty big subbass emphasis, which gives it a unique sound.
     
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    Just recently bought both the he-500 & pre fazor lcd2. Third time owning both but this is buy far the best lcd2 I've heard. He-500 is a very fun headphone to listen to.
     
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    Hey guys,
    I have a pair of original Etymotic ER4-P IEMs that I've owned for about a decade. I used to buy those replacement flange eartips from Etymotic, but I ran out a few months back and found some other tips laying around the house that actually made the IEMS sound a lot better to me. I have no idea where they came from but they are just some soft rubber tips shaped like about 2/3 of a sphere.

    So I guess I'm asking if any of you know what easily available, preferably cheap, eartips will fit the Etymotics that have a spherical shape, or really any other shape I should try. I'm not a fan of the foam plug type, but I'm probably open to about anything else.
     

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